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Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Ottawa, Graphic Publishers Limited: 1930
Seller ID: 012213
Condition: Good Plus
Showing school stamp, so must have been used as a high school text. Begins with the "literature of knowledge" and then passes on to the higher levels of truth and beauty. Liberally underlined. 295 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark, Limited:
Seller ID: 004138
Condition: Good
Original green pictorial cloth on boards, lettered in gold cover and spine. First free endpaper and title page are missing. Otherwise clean and sound. Stories centred around Miranda and her friendship with Kroof, the she-bear. 276 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Macmillan Press, Ltd.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 011532
ISBN: 0-333-27886-0
Condition: Near Fine
Black cloth on boards. Inscribed and signed by author. No other writing and no damage. F.R. Levis had a long career as college professor in England. His wife, Queenie, worked with him in literary criticism. They published Scrutiny, a literary magazine for about 20 years. Both were known for their powerful personalities and frequent controversies. 176 pp. View more info
By: Ruskin, John
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Company: 1865
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003432
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original brown suede (leather) with circular pastedown of girl's portrait. Short essays on various subjects. The binding appears similar to Caldwell's Rosemary Series of 1903. Gilt top edges. No writing. Cover pastedown is wrinkled and has edge missing. Short cover edge tear. Marbled endpapers, with front pastedown torn at head. 477 pp. View more info
By: Ruskin, John
Price: $100.00 USD
Publisher: Orpington, Kent, George Allen: 1878
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 007423
Condition: Very Good
Original full brown crushed morocco with gilt border on light boards. Cover lightly sprung. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Walter Overbeck Wade, born about 1838 in India and served in 91st Argyllshire Reg't of Foot in Greece in 1854 and 5th Administrative Battalion, Lancashire Rifle Volunteers in 1874. The text of this book is a selection of passages from Ruskin's work of 1843 on Modern Painters, as chosen by his friend Susan Beever, or Beaver, of Coniston. Nearly invisible in the upper corner of the first free endpaper is the incised stamp of Cedric Chivers, Bookbinder, Union St., Bath, who ... View more info
By: Sand, George
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, George Barrie & Sons: 1900
Seller ID: 002032
Condition: Very Good
Original blue cloth with fine gilt borders and signature. Translated by George Burnham Ives. Volume II only of a 2-volume set. Series titled Historic and Romantic Novels by Amandine Lucille Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant(George Sand). Begins at Chapter XXIV of The Sin of Monsieur Antoine. Top edges gilt; balance untrimmed. 342 pp. View more info
By: Sanger, Peter
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Kentville, N.S., Gaspereau Press Ltd.: 2005
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 004300
ISBN: 1554470048
Condition: Very Good
Original dark grey card covers with red DJ. Inscribed and signed June 18, 2005. Author has five poetry books to his credit previously, and serves as Poetry Editor of Antigonish Review. This volume is both prose and poetry. 235 pp. plus bio. View more info
By: Savile, George (Whibley, Charles, Ed.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Peter Davies: 1927
Edition: Limited Edition(Unnumbered)
Seller ID: 003180
Condition: Good Plus
Original salmon-coloured paper covered boards with green illustration and lettering. Ragged dust jacket is in two pieces laid in to front of book. Slight discolourations at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. The book belonged to Joan Foster, one of the daughters of the Honourable Walter Foster, Premier on New Brunswick from 1917 to 1923, and later Senator of Canada. This small book measures 3 1/4" by 5" and is part of the "Little Books" series edited by Charles Whibley. It is a reprint of a book originally published in 1750. The seri... View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Lovell:
Edition: Aldine Edition
Seller ID: 000601
Condition: Good
Original highly-decorated embossed red cloth on boards, gilt on spine. Aldine edition. Minor damage top of backstrip, OW good. 431 pp. Small stain on back cover. P.O.N. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, R.S. Peale:
Seller ID: 001221
Condition: Fair
Original red cloth highly decorated in black on boards. Gilt spine lettering. No DJ. Both hinges cracked, showing fabric, and repaired. Two leaves untrimmed at top corners. Ca. 1880. Better than a reading copy by a lesser-known publisher. The Fortunes of Nigel - 436 pp. Count Robert of Paris - 411 pp. Two long novels under one cover. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co.:
Seller ID: 001515
Condition: Very Good
Original green cloth decorated in black on boards. No DJ. One of the more popular of the Waverley Novels. Minor cover wear and bumped corners, OW very good. SEE PHOTO. 582 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.: 1887
Edition: Warne's Crown Library Edition
Seller ID: 004490
Condition: Very Good
Original brown cloth decorated and lettered in black on bevelled boards. Previous owner's name in elegant ink script. No other writing and no damage. 467 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge And Sons, Limited:
Seller ID: 007172
Condition: Very Good
Original floral decorated blue cloth on boards. Every Boy's Library. Previous owner's name with no other writing or damage. Very small print ! 196 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Collins Clear Type Press:
Seller ID: 011078
Condition: Good
Glossy maroon pigskin leather on flexible board. Title page missing; In its place is a poem, Lake of the Woods, written by M. B. Leitch, Complaint Department. Previous owner's signature is Flora McDonald, Wapella, Sask. Minor scuffing to ends of spine and corners. 632 pp. with notes, plus catalog. (See two following listings from same previous owner). View more info
By: Shesgreen, Sean
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press: 1972
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 007986
Condition: Near Fine
Original grey cloth on boards. DJ not price-clipped. Background, Jonathan Wild, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Amelia, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index. At time of publication, the author was Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. ISBN 0-87580-029-7. 206 pp. View more info
By: Shute, Nevil
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1964
Seller ID: 001743
Condition: Very Good
Original red and white patterned cloth on boards. Small mark beside cover title (See photo). Previous owner's name. Front endpapers upside-down. Minor shelf tear at foot of spine. Murray Irwin of Moira Secondary School, Belleville, Ontario, prepared the study material. 250 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Harper and Brothers Publishers: 1949
Edition: Stated First Edition
Seller ID: 003533
Condition: Very Good
Original black cloth on boards. Introduction by Anne Fremantle. 40 Articles reprinted from several issues of The Commonweal Magazine from 1927 to 1949. 310 pp. Unmarked and undamaged. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Archibald Constable: 1908
Edition: Third Impression
Seller ID: 000920
Condition: Very Good
Original bright green cloth with gilt lettering in box, no DJ. 143 pp. View more info
By: Spenser, Edmund
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: London/New York, Dent/Dutton: 1937
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 009293
Condition: Very Good
Original green cloth on boards. DJs have small nicks head and foot. Everyman's Library No. 443 and 444. Vol. II was reprinted 1942, and is whiter that Vol. I, which was reprinted in 1937. No writing. Vol I has 500 pp. Vol. II has 480 pp., including a Glossary. View more info
By: Stager, The Old
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, Ltd.: 1925
Seller ID: 009562
Condition: Good Plus
Brown paper boards backed in grey cloth. A calendar of pithy thoughts gleaned from experience and guided by the influence of others, from great literature and elsewhere. Unnamed author admits to four wasted years at Oxford as well as a similar number in the trenches of WW I. No writing. Two strained gutters glued for safety. 309 pp. View more info